1. This past semester, I worked for the UAA marketing department as a gameday marketing intern called “Blueshirt”. While I pride myself on my work, I did make one major mistake during this semester. I was working the football game against Missouri when I made the biggest mistake I have made in my employment. I was on the field prior to the game when one of my supervisors came up to me. She was helping to escort a family that was visiting that game. My supervisor placed their bags by me and asked if I could help keep an eye on the bags. I agreed to, but quickly became distracted by the job that I had at hand. A few minutes later, I realized that I needed to get moving to go to my next destination and job and had completely forgotten about the bag. A few minutes later, I got a call from my supervisor asking if I had seen the bag. In all of the commotion, I had completely forgotten about it. The bag had the clients glasses in them and other personal items. Luckily, after a bit, the bag was found. But I definitely failed in my duty as a customer service rep, and many other employees had to bail me out and utilize their time to do so.
2. I learned that, even in times of high stress and lots happening, I need to keep my mind and my eyes open. I cannot allow myself to get swept up in the moment and forget my own responsibilities.
3. I think failure is the greatest tool we have as humans. Without failure, we cannot possibly have success. Honestly, I used to handle failure very poorly. A lot of that was the issues I had with my own anxiety. However, over the last several years, I have learned how to better handle the curveballs that life throws. This class has made me more open to failure. Reading and hearing all the stories of successful people who have dealt with failure has proved to me even more how necessary it is. This class makes me more likely to put myself and my reputation on the line in order to take a risk.
Cooper,
ReplyDeleteI can really tell your remorse in your failure by the way you told the story. What this means is that you definitely learned from it. Although you did make a mistake, in the long term, it was only a minor mistake but taught you a valuable lesson. You were able to learn from this mistake at a larger scale than the actual outcome of the mistake. I think your ability to learn from it will serve you well.
Hello Goetz, I believe that every student makes mistakes, and as you said we had to learn from it. To be honest, everyone who would have been in your position could have made the same mistake you did. I bet that there were a huge amount of people during the game and you probably had some assignments in your mind that lead to not remembering the bags. Gladly, nothing happened and the bags were found, but to be honest, it could have happened to me as well.
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